there is an American historian called Will Durant. He dedicated his life to studying civilizations. He wrote tons of literature and in the end of his life he wrote the book the Lessons of History.

While studying civilizations, their birth and decline, he has found out that ALL civilizations, no exception ever, are born in the same way and die in the same way. According to him once the signs of the decline of a civilization are seen to the complete decline of the civilization are 100-130 years. Again, according to him our civilization’s decline has started in the 1930s. All signs have already been present at that time. The thing is that our civilization is the last one. He didn’t know this because he was an atheist, but we do.

I know it’s a very long text but read it. This is an excerpt from his book he wrote in the end of the 1960s.
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When the group or a civilization declines, it is through no mystic limitation of a corporate life, but through the failure of its political or intellectual leaders to meet the challenges of change.

The challenges may come from a dozen sources, and may by repetition or combination rise to a destructive intensity. Rainfall or oases may fail and leave the earth parched to sterility. The soil may be exhausted by incompetent husbandry or improvident usage. The replacement of free with slave labor may reduce the incentives to production, leaving lands untitled and cities unfed. A change in the instruments or routes of trade—as by the conquest of the ocean or the air—may leave old centers of civilization becalmed and decadent, like Pisa or Venice after 1492. Taxes may mount to the point of discouraging capital investment and productive stimulus. Foreign markets and materials may be lost to more enterprising competition; excess of imports over exports may drain precious metal from domestic reserves. The concentration of wealth may disrupt the nation in class or race war. The concentration of population and poverty in great cities may compel a government to choose between enfeebling the economy with a dole and running the risk of riot and revolution.

Since inequality grows in an expanding economy, a society may find itself divided between a cultured minority and a majority of men and women too unfortunate by nature or circumstance to inherit or develop standards of excellence and taste. As this majority grows it acts as a cultural drag upon the minority; its ways of speech, dress, recreation, feeling, judgment, and thought spread upward, and internal barbarization by the majority is part of the price that the minority pays for its control of educational and economic opportunity.

As education spreads, theologies lose credence, and receive an external conformity without influence upon conduct or hope. Life and ideas become increasingly secular, ignoring supernatural explanations and fears.

The moral code loses aura and force as its human origin is revealed, and as divine surveillance and sanctions are removed. In ancient Greece the philosophers destroyed the old faith among the educated classes; in many nations of modern Europe the philosophers achieved similar results. Protagoras became Voltaire, Diogenes Rousseau, Democritus Hobbes, Plato Kant, Thrasymachus Nietzsche, Aristotle Spencer, Epicurus Diderot. In antiquity and modernity alike, analytical thought dissolved the religion that had buttressed the moral code. New religions came, but they were divorced from the ruling classes, and gave no service to the state. An age of weary skepticism and epicureanism followed the triumph of rationalism over mythology in the last century before Christianity, and follows a similar victory today in the first century after Christianity.

Caught in the relaxing interval between one moral code and the next, an unmoored generation surrenders itself to luxury, corruption, and a restless disorder of family and morals, in all but a remnant clinging desperately to old restraints and ways. Few souls feel any longer that “it is beautiful and honorable to die for one’s country.” A failure of leadership may allow a state to weaken itself with internal strife. At the end of the process a decisive defeat in war may bring a final blow, or barbarian invasion from without may combine with barbarism welling up from within to bring the civilization to a close.

Hi Jim,

Because all the world signs that actually mean anything indicate the world cannot go on much beyond 2030.

That is what this series I wrote over twenty years ago was all about.

https://www.thepropheticyears.com/reasons/reason%20why%20we%20are%20in%20the%20last%20days.htm

Back in 1988 many smart astute Christians thought Jesus would return. This happened again in 2000. Now many, myself included are looking to the 2030s. Were the people of the past not as astute as they thought or just over excited? Does God impress upon the church time is short or doesn’t He? If He does how did all the prophecy buffs get it dead wrong? Are we any different? People thought the signs pointed to 1988. We think they point to the 2030s. What makes us any better then those of the past? Any signs of the times (evil, tech, etc) we see today are very likely to be around only to a much more pervasive extent 50, 100, 200 years from now.

There are so many Christians around the world who practice their faith in secret for fear of persecution or ridicule. To the world it will appear that people of all faiths disappeared together. Besides many people claiming to be Christians will be left behind.

One of the most infuriating speeches Biden ever gave that proved beyond a doubt this was a manufactured crisis was months ago in the winter. This was supposed to be the worst pandemic of the last century and he said we would be celebrating our victory from the virus on the convienent date of July 4th….

Don
Pastor Brandon Holthaus
Dr Ken Johnson
Bill Salus
Dave Cullen (Computingforever)

That’s about it.

As far as the prophecy update guys…I was enjoying watching some of them for a while as there is some good teaching mixed in, but they indeed are reading every current event into Bible prophecy. When it started to seem like they were just saying the same thing week in and week out it sort of turned me off too them. I asked Don about his thoughts on Israel because he does pretty good at tracking current events but doesnt usually read a spin into them, and I appreciate that. Examples from the last year by some of them: lightning struck the Washington monument(God judging the U.S.) even though lightning strikes there about a dozen times a year. “A flag ripped in a storm, must mean our country is falling apart.” The country is falling apart but the flag is not supposed to be flown in nasty weather if there is a potential for damage. Trump lost the election (it was stolen) “this must happen for Ezekiel 38” and so on. When there is real prophetic fulfillment of any event it will be and always has been unambiguous, specific, literal, and undeniable except for willful ignorance.